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Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,650 scholarly publications and indexing and abstracts for 8,200 journals. Covers nearly every area of academic study, with some articles from 1975 or further back to present. Journals Indexed

Architectural Index
Indexes professional architecture magazines, focusing specifically on building types, architects and architectural firms. The online database covers from 1982 to the present.

Art Museum Image Gallery
An online collection of over 155,000 images documenting works of art from museum collections around the world. Images range from 3,000 B.C. to present including fine and decorative art, modern and contemporary art from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. To access, check off the Art Museum Image Gallery box on the menu. Select Art Full Text and Art Retrospective to search text and image databases at the same time. Museum Collections | Art Museum Image Gallery tour | Art Museum Image Gallery demo

Art Full Text/Art Retrospective
The online version of H W Wilson's Art Index provides indexing, abstracting, and full text coverage of over 1000 international journals in fine and applied arts, architecture, design, and museology. Indexing 1929 to present, with abstracts from 1994 to present, and full text articles from 150 journals from 1997 to present. To access, check off the appropriate box on the top yellow menu. More than one H W Wilson database can be searched at a time. Journals Indexed New Features: Language Interface, Read Speaker (text to speech), Translate non-English language Documents

ARTbibliographies Modern
Indexing and abstracting coverage of international journals, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, 1974 to present. Journals Indexed

ARTstor
ARTstor contains over one million digital images covering all periods of art, architecture, and archeology including contemporary art & design. With over 60 collections, use ARTstor's capability to view and save images into a personal folder as well as make presentations. To save groups of images and to print and download images for permitted uses you will need to register. ARTstor Help | Disabling Pop-Up Blocking Software | Accessing ARTstor from On and Off Campus

ARTstor videos:
Introducing the New ARTstor
Register for an ARTstor Account
Making an Image Group
Download Images to PowerPoint

Ask Art
AskART is an online database containing over 120,000 artists from early 16th-century through the present. Access information about artists biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads(pre-1998) and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexing and abstracting coverage of over 700 international journals in architecture and design, landscape architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation, and decoration from 1934 to present. Journals Indexed

BuildingGreen Suite
This is a green design online resource containing articles from Environmental Building News, case studies, and green product listings. LEED(Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)Credits and CSI(Construction Specification Institute)Classifications are used to rate a project's sustainable design.

COPA: Commercial Pattern Archive
COPA is a project that electronically captures and records commercial pattern data. Commercial patterns are full-scale tissue paper clothing patterns used by the home-sewer to create garments and accessories issued in the States as early as 1854. The Archive is an official project of Save America's Treasures. Please contact the Reference Desk: risdlib@risd.edu or 401-709-5902 for login and password.

DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index
Indexing and abstracting coverage of over 500 international design and craft journals, 1973 to present. covers new designers and the development of design and applied art since mid 19th century. Disciplines include ceramics, glass, jewelry, graphic design, fashion, furniture, architecture, animation and industrial design. Journals Indexed

DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective
The retrospective of Design and Applied Arts Index, provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of craft and design a particular emphasis on European publications. When complete, DAR will index 68 journals from 1903-1986, with some sources dating back to 1894. Journals Indexed

Design ProFILES
Contains biographical profiles of more than 15,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design. Design ProFILES Factsheet

E-Journals
Search E-Journals by title to locate electronic journals available in the databases to which RISD Library subscribes. Search E-Journals by keyword, subject, or publisher to discover journals of topical interest. Follow links to the database listed or to RISD Print Holdings to determine the years and location of printed journal subscriptions.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text of more than 2,200 digests as well as indexing and abstracts from over 1,000 education journals. Journals Indexed

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Film & Television Literature Index is a full text database covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals and nearly 50 books. Journals Indexed

FirstSearch
Gateway to 24 databases which index newspapers, journal articles, and academic writing in a variety of subject categories including alternative press, biography, business, consumer affairs, current events, theses and dissertations, economics, education, engineering, general science, health, humanities, law, life sciences, medicine, public affairs, social sciences, and technology. Dates of coverage vary. The search option, "Suggest Best Database" is a good starting point. Also contains WorldCat (see worldcat.org) OCLC's catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. To request books or articles not owned by RISD Library, see Interlibrary Loan. Return completed ILL forms to the Reference desk or email to RISD Library. Requests can take up to two weeks. Questions? RISD Reference, 709-5902.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online
An authoritative guide with extensive surveys and in-depth, signed full-text articles on the history of art written by noted scholars in their respective field of expertise. This online version of the Dictionary of Art provides external image links to museums, galleries, and art collections around the world.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals containing high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. JSTOR is not a current issues database, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. RISD Library subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, and III and the Arts & Sciences Complement. Create links to JSTOR articles in Online Syllabi and Web Pages. Alphabetical Title List | JSTOR Tutorials

LexisNexis Academic
Access over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources containing more than a billion full-text articles, citation abstracts, and documents. Emphasis is on current news and legal and business information. Coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Tutorial | Sources Indexed

LibGuides
Created by RISD Librarians LibGuides highlight library resources and collections that support creative work at RISD. Check out the current LibGuides available on Special Collections, Artists' Books, and Graduate Research Skills.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Journals Indexed

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. Source List

 

Material ConneXion
Database of materials and processes covering the fields of architecture, industrial design, interior design, and textiles. Includes over 2,800 materials representing eight categories: carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, ceramics, glass, metals, natural material derivatives, natural materials, and polymers. Provides comprehensive product information, technical specifications, application information, manufacturer profiles, and material images.

MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STORs language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. Use with the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Journals Indexed

Oxford Art Online
This major art reference source includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. New features include Timelines of world art, MOMA lesson plans, and thematic guides. Utilize digital images within the Oxford Art Online database. Browse or Search among 5,990 digital images and 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world.

Oxford English Dictionary
Full text version of the second edition of the OED, the most complete dictionary of the English language available. Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international and English language sources. Sign up to receive the OED Word of the Day by email or RSS feed. View today's Word of the Day.

Oxford Reference Online
Includes timelines, maps and illustrations, quotations, encyclopedia and bi-lingual dictionaries. This source is comprised of 175 titles, including key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Encyclopedia of Mammals. List of Subjects & Books.

Project Muse
Provides full text to over 300 humanities, art, and social science journals. Alphabetical Title List

RDID
The RISD Digital Image Database, RDID, is an image bank created by the Visual Resources Center at the RISD Library. The database holds several collections of images contributed by departments across the school. The largest of these is the RISD Visual Resources Library, which at present comprises over 4,000 digital images of art and design objects. Faculty and students can access the database from on and off campus by using their Novell username/password. All the digital images are available for download for teaching and study purposes. For further information and training in the use of RDID, please contact the Visual Resources Librarian.


Rhizome
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, Rhizome's website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. Sign up to create a personal profile, subscribe to Rhizome's blog and newsletters, participate in discussion, post announcements and view job opportunities, browse art in the online archive, the ArtBase, find out about recent events and exhibitions, apply for a grant and view Rhizome grantees.


RISD Library Picture Collection
The Picture Collection contains over 500,000 images. Clippings, photographs, maps, mounted art prints and other items are arranged by subject and nearly all circulate. If you need a reference photo of a barbershop or a battleship, Winston Churchill or Martha Stewart, this is where you need to go. An iMac and flatbed scanner is available if you prefer your clippings digital - images can be saved to a CD that may be purchased for $1.00. There is a black and white photocopier and a Go-Print station networked to a color printer. There are stock images and Dover clip art on CD-ROMs that may be checked out. Ask for them at the Picture Collection counter. Browse or search the Picture Collection's Picture Collection Art File Index (pdf) or Picture Collection Subject Index (pdf) to locate folders by artist, medium, country, art movement, or subject.

RISD Library Reference Blog
Created by RISD Librarians, this blog is used to log reference questions received via email, in person and by phone at the Reference Desk. Check here for sources and search tips on recent assignments and for resources specific to your major. RISD Library Reference Desk, 709-5902, risdlib@risd.edu

Teacher Reference Center
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Ulrichsweb
Ulrichsweb is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, and newsletters from around the world. Search by keyword, title, subject or ISSN( International Standard Serial Number). Use it to learn which online index to search for a specific periodical or whether a journal is peer-reviewed and has an online presence. Use to learn if a journal has ceased publication or has had a title change. Ulrichsweb includes reviews, demographics of each journal's readership, submission information, publication frequency and subscription price. From the Ulrich's record, search the RISD/Ath catalog by selecting SEARCH MY LIBRARY'S CATALOG. Titles List

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
The ULAN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about 120,000 artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names). Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name. The temporal coverage of the ULAN ranges from Antiquity to the present and the scope is global.

Worldcat
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for books, music, CDs, and videos as well as downloadable audio books, article citations some with full text, authoritative research materials such as documents and photos, and digital versions of rare items.